Draft-equalizer.



` 110.-, 781,203. PATENTE) .JAN-31, 1905.

l lHJJ.H EIDER. y DRAFT EQUALIZBR.

'APPLICATION FILEDJUNE 80, 1904;

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@mi/Meow rNo. 781,203.

Patented January 31, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. HEIDER, or CARROLL, Iowa..

I DRAFT-EQUALlzER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,203, dated. January I31., 1905.

Application filed J'une 30, 1904. Serial No. 214,799.

To a/ZZ whom` it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. HEIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carroll, in the county of Carroll and State of Iowa, have invented a new and luseful Draft-Equalizer, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to improvements in draft-eq ualizers for use on agricultural implements, and particularly plows.

The object in the present case is to provide a novel evener structure ywhich can lbe employed by itself for connecting a number of Figure 1 is a plan view of an equalizer constructed in accordance with and covered by a former patent granted to me on June 23, 1903,

No. 731,968, said equalizer showing the irn-l proved evener forming a part of the same. Fig. 2 is a sectional view through a portion of the equalizer, on an enlarged scale, and showingtheimproved evener. Fig. Sisaplan view illustrating the evener when used by itself, and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the lever and links constituting a part of said evener.

Similar reference-numerals indicate correspondingI parts in all the figures of the drawings. I i

Brieliy described, the equalizer illustrated in Fig. 1 consists of a frame 5, that is in substan tiall y the form of the letter A, arranged to be secured to the clevis 6 of a plow by means of suitable bolts 7. To the free end of the frame is pivoted a link 8, and to one side of the bar 14, having a pivot 15, located nearer one end than the other. To the long arm of the evener-baris attached, by means'of links 16, a whifiietree 17. To the shorter arm of said bar 14 there is connected, by means of a pivot 18, a lever comprising bar elements 19 and 20,

said elements embracing the end of the lever,

and the free end thereof is located directly in advance of the pivot 15, said free end carry- Y.

ing links 25, to and between which is secured a whilletree 26. The links 25 with their pivots are preferably located in substantial alinement with the pivotfl. The element 20 is riveted or otherwise secured, .as shown at 27, to the element 19 and is located beneath the evenerbar 14, terminating at the pivot 18, as illustrated in Fig. 2. An evener as thus constructed constitutes an efficient part of the equalizer illustrated in Fig. 1, in that the draft of the two animals connected to the=le ver is balanced by the draft of the one animal attached4 directly to the evener-bar 14, the

' strain of these three animals being in turn overcome or balanced by the team hitched to the doubletree 12. The evener, moreover, may be employed by itself, as illustrated in Fig. 3, in which case the e'vener-bar 14 is attached directly to the clevis of the plow, as illustrated.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, operation, and many advantages' of the herein-described invention will be apparentto those skilled in the art without further description, and it will be understood that TOO with an evener-bar having a pivot, of a lever pivoted between its ends on the evener-bar on one side of the pivot thereof and extending longitudinally along said bar, the inner end of the lever being forwardly otfset and disposed in advance of the evener-bar pivot, and whilietrees connected to the lever on opposite sides of its pivot and to the evener-bar on the side of its pivot that is opposite to that carrying the lever.

2. In a draft equalizer, the combination withan evener-bar having a pivot located nearer one end than the other, of a lever pivoted between its ends on the shorter arm of the evener-bar, said lever comprising bar elements that embrace the @vener-bar, one ol the elements extending longitudinally of the bar and having its inner end otlset and located in advance of the evener-bar pivot, whiilietrees connected to the ends of the lever, and a whiletree connected to the longer arm of the evener-bar.

In testimony that I Claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY J HEIDER.

Witnesses:

J. C. HEIDER, FRANK VAN ERDEWYK. 

